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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-2316:
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INodeSymlink.isDirectory() always return false, how could we have DIRECTORY_SYMLINK? Do you mean for some FileSystem other than HDFS?
> webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP
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> Key: HDFS-2316
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2316
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Attachments: WebHdfsAPI20111020.pdf, WebHdfsAPI20111103.pdf, WebHdfsAPI20111111.pdf, test-webhdfs, test-webhdfs-0.20s
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> We current have hftp for accessing HDFS over HTTP. However, hftp is a read-only FileSystem and does not provide "write" accesses.
> In HDFS-2284, we propose to have webhdfs for providing a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP. The is the umbrella JIRA for the tasks.
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